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How Quakers Can Support the Troops?
Shortly after submitting this article to Friends Journal, about soldiers resisting deployment, I was stunned by the news from Ft.…
A Quaker’s Quest in Poland
Poland wouldn’t have been my first choice as a tourist destination. I had too many troubling memories going back to…
What is at Stake in the Torture Debate?
With the election of Barack Obama in November 2008, it seemed for a time that, as a people, we might…
On Paying Attention
Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with…
Into the Abyss and Back
Held in the Light: Norman Morrison’s Sacrifice for Peace and His Family’s Journey of Healing By Anne Morrison Welsh, with…
A Family Responds to Suspicionless Drug Testing
he whole issue started in the spring of 2006 when I was a freshman in high school. The school district…
Language and Friends Witness
In our era of mass media, the world is not just "too much with us," as the poet William Wordsworth…
Irony in Grade Four
My nine-year-old daughter’s two favorite words this school year have been "sarcastic" and "ironic." Sarcasm was fairly easy to master—after…
Pilgrim in a Barren Land
After midnight, even on an unseasonably mild November evening, the late-working staffers have gone home and the tourists are back…
Violence on the Playground: An Everyday Struggle
I am standing in the hallway after the students have left, towering over a six-year-old boy who is squeezing showy…
Concerned about Israel and/or Palestine: Perhaps We Are Part of the Problem
In October 2008, I traveled to the West Bank on behalf of Friends World Committee for Consultation-Europe and Middle East…
Christian Peace Witness for Iraq: The Risks that Faith Asks
On April 29 of this year, I was blessed to attend the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq (CPWI) in Washington,…
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